This is an analysis of the poem The Three Fishers that begins with:

1 Three fishers went sailing away to the west,
2 Away to the west as the sun went down;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccd ebebccd fbfbccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011001001 10100110111 111101011101 1101011001001 1111111011 111100111001 110101010 11111001110 11110110111 1111011111010 1101111011011 1111111011 1110101101 110101010 11101110101 10010110111 1101011011011 111101011001 1111111011 1101001001001 11010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word moaning at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Three Fishers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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